Spend a Saturday with other Gardeners, learning about Central Oregon's unique growing environment, visiting some local vendors, bidding on a great Silent Auction and sharing your own lifetime of gardening experience. For more information about the Master Gardeners Spring Gardening Seminar on Saturday, April 16, go to www.gocomga.com/gardening-news.html for a registration packet.

Join Base Camp Studio for a costume-making workshop at The Environmental Center, where you can create your very own fish costume for the parade! Please RSVP for this event in advance!

VegNet Bend, A PlantPure Nation member, invites you to jump into wellness and good health with our Spring Wellness Jump Start at the Tower Theatre, Sunday April 17, 2016 at 4:00 pm. There is no charge for admission to this event but there will be a donation box to defer costs. The event will include: Screening of PlantPure…

Bend 2030 will host four workshops in April offering community members a chance to envision the future of Oregon State University – Cascades’ new campus and to provide input on the university’s long-range development plan. What ideas do you have for the new campus? Come and share them at these interactive and informative workshops. Participants…

Daniele McKay, Ph.D., Geologist and Instructor at OSU-Cascades, will enlighten us on our local environs. The desert landscapes of eastern Oregon have been shaped by subduction zones, continental rifting, and hot spots that originate from deep within the Earth. Together these tectonic forces have created a diverse landscape of rugged mountain ranges, high lava plains, and deep river canyons.…

As individual consumers, the single best thing we can do for the planet is to keep our stuff in use longer. This simple act of extending the life of our garments through proper care and repair reduces the need to buy more over time—thereby avoiding the CO2 emissions, waste output and water usage required to…